PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015
NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.
This is a continuing mechanism from FY11 COP but activities to be undertaken have been significantly expanded to include harm reduction for people who inject drugs (PWID). The Health Policy Project is implemented by the Futures Group, in partnership with a number of other organizations. The mechanism will strengthen in-country capacity for policy and governance, financing, leadership and advocacy, multi-sectoral coordination, and promoting country ownership of programs and initiatives. This closely aligns with Ghana’s PF and GHI which seeks to ensure improved quality and increased use of strategic information and also improve governance, leadership and accountability in the health sector.
USAID/Ghana has a new initiative to develop a program for PWID. HPP will lead and finance activities to ensure that the program is well accepted by national and local authorities and that local legal issues are addressed. HPP will work directly with national level institutions whose activities impact on policies around injecting drug use in Ghana, including; Ghana AIDS Commission, the Ghana Health Service, the Narcotics Control Board and the Food and Drug Administration leverage. The project will be national in scope will seek to prepare the policy environment for a national adoption and implementation of PWID program for HIV prevention.
Additionally, USAID has received funding from the Local Capacity Initiative to implement a civil society-driven health governance and accountability project, particularly, issues related to the insecurity of ARV supply, human rights, patients’ rights and stigma-related issues. HPP will provide targeted training and coaching once a local organization is selected for this work.
Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.
